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Fig. 1 · Ebm9 · hard

ukulele chord

E♭m9

E♭1G♭♭3B♭5D♭♭7F9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is D♯m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

E♭m9 is E♭, G♭, B♭, D♭ and F — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 8698: 4 fingers, held at the 6th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 5 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are E♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

8
first inversion

E♭m9/G♭

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2
second inversion

E♭m9/B♭

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6
third inversion

E♭m9/D♭

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

E♭ in other shapes

E♭add9added ninthE♭9dominant ninthE♭maj9major ninthE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

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